Pocket-strip for use in vending-machines.



S. L. W. 00E & H. WERDEN. POCKET STRIP FOR USE IN VENDING MACHINES.APPLICATION FILED 001. 21, 1908.

943,652, Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

I WITNESSES F INVENTORS UNITED mii E-mom a SARA L. W. COE'AND HENRIETTAWERDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET-STRIP FOR USE IN VENDING-MA CHINES.

i To all whom it may concern! Be it known that we, SARA-L. W. Con andHENRIETTA 'WERDEN, of New York, in the county of New York'and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Pocket-Strips for Use in Vending-Machines; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to means for carrying and discharging goods foruse with vending or delivery apparatus, and more particularly to meansfor carrying and delivering such small articles '"as postage stamps,

,the object of the invention beingto provide aconnected series ofpockets to contain postage stamps andadapted to be operated by means ofsuitable feeding mechanism which may comprise a roller over which theconnected series of pockets pass, and to so construct said series ofpockets that they will be accurately fed and to construct each pocket insuch manner that the stamps can be readily placed therein and easilyremoved therefrom.

Vith this object in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter setforth and pointed out in the claims. f l r x In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure l is a view showing the relation of our pocket strip toa feed wheel of a vending machine, and Figs. 2 and 3 are detail viewsshowing the construction of the pockets and the manner of holding stampstherein.

1 represents a strip of connected pockets, said strip being notched atits respective edges and at the points of juncture,of the pockets forthe reception of lugs 2 on a feed wheel 3. The pairs of lugs 2 arelocated a distance apart on the periphery of the feed wheel exactlyequal to the length of a pocket 4 so that the notches 5 at theintersection of said pockets will accurately receive said lugs and thepocket strip be caused to be fed forwardly a suflicient,distance toproject one pocket from the machine at each impulse of the feedwheel,-'-the pocket strip and feed wheel thus operating somewhat afterthe manner of sprocket gearing. 'When a pocket containing a stam orstamps is fed from the machine it can e torn from the strip and VSpecification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 21, 196:9, Applicationfiled October 21, 1908. Serial No. 458,838. n

to facilitate such tearing of a pocket, the J strip'is weakened at theintersection of the pockets by means of slits 6.

The pocket strip may be made of comparatively stout paper having itsside edges bent upon the body of the paper, as shown at 7. Each bentover portion 7 of each pocket is secured near respective ends by meansof suitable adhesive material and thus receptacles are formed for theside edges of a stamp or stamps. The stamp or stamps can 'be readilyinserted into the receptacles and as the central body portions of thestamps are exposed they can be readily removed from the pocket.

Having fully described our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is,

1. A flexible pocket strip comprising a connected series of pockets,each comprising receptacles at respective edges of the strip and saidstri having notches in its side edges at the intersection of thereceptacles of adjacent pockets for the accommodation of feeding means.

2. A flexible pocket strip comprising a connected series of removablepockets for the reception of postage stamps, each of said strip havingits side edges folded over, each of said bent over portions beingsecured at its ends and forming receptacles for diametrically oppositeportions of a stamp.

4. A; flexible strip having notches at intervals in each of its edgesand weakened transversely of the strip between said notches, theportions of the s1des of the strip between the notches being bentpartially over the body portion of the strip and secured at theirspecification in the presence 0? two subscribends,-said bent overportions forming receping Witnesses. tacles for the edge portions ofstamps or SARA L., W. COE.

tickets at respectlve edges of the strip bev HENRIETTA WERDEN. 5 tweenthe notches a.nd weakened portions of Witnesses;

the latter. HARRISON S.- DOWELL,

In testimony whereof, We have signed this. JAMES OWENS.

